Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg free july much ado about nothing City councillors go around in circles Over illusory deficit by Aldo Santon the remaining million for flood and Gannon said it was going City Hall reporter damage to Lon term require another from it by Aldo Santon City Hall reporter numbers dont always Tell the whole earlier this statistics were manipulated by senior City staff to present a fable no politician could understand but one they were willing to accept because it sounded chief financial officer Bob Gannon told mayor Susan Thompson and her executive committee that last months deficit of million had been reduced to by Transfer ring More funds from Gan non said that deficit could be eliminated and the City would end the year with a but he that would Only be achieved if Council didst approve any additional spending this Good said some of the coun but for the fact that there was still a deficit caught them by sur last they approved a series of program Revenue transfers and Revenue amendments to stave off what they were told was a in the deficit totalled Mil lion and the cuts and Revenue enhancements reached which left a Gannon said that last months pro Gram cuts had been implemented and the million was the remaining this could be he by transferring million from utilities and by accounting for the remaining million for flood damage to Lon term that dismayed a few More Council who believed that after All the work they did last the deficit had climbed again to they were pleased to hear that administration had wrangled it Back Down to there is a far simpler and More honest Over the past the cites financial situation had actually wors the million package they patched together last month want enough to keep them out of the Hole this the million in service cuts remained in they adjust Revenue projections any higher than the million from last but the surplus was gone and Gannon said it was going to require another from utile which had already Given up to end the year with a simple mathematics Points out that the Only difference Between last month and this month is there has been a swing in revenues to expenditures of in a budget of a projected swing of a differ ence of per cent is probably not Worth commenting in Gannon told the free press two Days later there was no real Dif Ference in the cites financial Situa Tion from last month to this the information we presented this week confirmed the effect of councils deficit reduction plan that was approved last Gannon there is no drug dealer must avoid Bike gangs expos bravos members sentence bars him from dealing with gangs by Allison Bray staff reporter a former los bravos motorcycle gang member was sentenced to 16 months in jail and barred from associating with outlaw bikers yesterday for trafficking in Ronald James was also sentenced to two years probation after he was found guilty 21 of one count of trafficking in he was arrested in january at a Home in Boniface after Selling kilograms of the Weed to undercover police officers for during his sentencing hearing earlier this Federal Crown attorney Brian Clarke had argued Irving should be Given a Penitentiary term of two years or More to deter current members of the los bravos from dealing in Clarke argued the outlaw motorcycle club is heavily involved in organized with drug dealing its main he said the courts should impose a stiff sentence on Irving to Send a Clear message to the gang and like minded individuals that drug dealing will be dealt with harshly by the request although Madam Justice Holly Beard of the court of Queens Bench chose not to impose the prison she also rejected a request from irvings lawyer for a conditional the new sentencing pro vision allows sentences of two years less a Day to be served in the Community under strict Beard said Irving is not a candidate for such a sen she said he continues to associate with a current member of the outlaw motorcycle gang and attended the Winnipeg funeral last year of slain los bravos president Daniel boy Kos funeral Drew hundreds of outlaw bikers after he was gunned Down in an Gangland style execution following a gathering with the Hells sympathetic his sympathetic support from the sidelines indicates he has not withdrawn sup she Beard cited a report from a probation officer indicating he is at medium risk to As she said Irving committed the crime while on a Promise to appear for an earlier unrelated Beard added deterrence is a key Factor when consid ering sentences in drug the trafficking in drugs is still a serious she but irvings lawyer Ian Garber said his clients past association with the bravos has nothing to do with the Irving left the gang in according to Evi Dence from the Winnipeg police service outlaw motorcycle gang we Are definitely going to he said of the in my the los bravos motorcycle club had absolutely nothing to do with this Garber said sending a message to an outside 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naming account holders of Swiss Bank accounts dormant since the second world wont talk about Why she was who apparently holds dual Swiss and Canadian is one of several Hundred account hold ers on the list that appeared in news papers around the now she immigrated to Canada in 1908 with her a Swiss Cus Toms she doubts anyone put Money Iii a Swiss account in her it cant be she some body has picked the name out of a the list was published by the Swiss Bankers association in response to ongoing demands by jewish organizations for full disclosure of assets of holocaust victims in Swiss it purports to contain the names of say ass Bank account owners whose assets were deposited before the end of the second world the Swiss Bankers said a second list is to be made Public in Evelyn director of Community relations for the Canadian jew ish Congress in said this disclosure by the Swiss Banks is significant in and of but Hecht said its also important because it could Lead to the disclosure of other jewish assets in nazi held parts of Europe and in Germany itself that May have been taken to safety in Hecht said there Are about 300 holocaust survivors in but their number is dwindling because most of them Are in their 70s and a few in their 60s were children when nazi Germany controlled much of Western Europe from the mid1930s until the end of the War in they were hidden protected by people in their Home communities who hid them from the Hecht it is not Clear How Many of the Winnipeg jewish Community might have claims on family assets believed hidden in Swiss we have to assume the list published yesterday is fairly accurate even though the one Winnipeg Ger in it should not have been Hecht the list is quite quite positive a Little bit too late but still Winnipeg resident Carla Divinsky is hopeful that the disclosure of the first set of dormant Swiss Bank accounts will help her recover her family assets at some Divinsky not part of the first Divinsky said she joined an International class action Law suit last Winter and has been contacted by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre which initiated the Divinsky grandparents had a jewelry store in the dutch City of Hilversum at the Start of the when hostilities the store and its contents were confiscated by the Divinsky grandparents were forced to live in a ghetto and later taken to a concentration Camp where they the jewish Leader who led the fight to open Swiss Bank records on the assets of holocaust victims predicted yesterday that the end of Swiss Bank secrecy is Edgar president of the world jewish also called on the Vatican to open up its closely guarded second world War archives and said he wants to discuss the Issue with Pope John Paul and Vati can the billionaire chair Man of the Seagram and a Mon Treal said Hes gratified the Swiss have finally years after the War started to publish the names of holders of dormant Holo Austera he predicted the worldwide publication of names was just a Bronfman began his Campaign in 1995 after the Swiss Bankers association rebuffed his pleas to open their books and account for the Money deposited by jews in their Banks after Adolf Hitler took Power a in Brief missing 11 Back Home an 11ye Arold who had been missing for More than a was returned Home yesterday after a free press Reader recognized his picture in the paper and called Aaron Anthony flatfoot had been staying at a Home in the inner City with people who didst know his family had reported him police say flatfoot was but had been living on and off the Street since last local Media outlets carried a missing persons report about the youth after police put out a Public request to help find him Birds Hill manhunt East Paul police Are look ing for a Man who has exposed himself to Young girls in the Birds Hill Village area three times since the most recent incident occurred on wednesday when a White Between 16 to 20 years approached a Young girl and exposed the Man is about has a slim dark hair and approaches his victims on a Sil ver or Black Mountain he is believed to live in the if anyone has information about this person they Are asked to Contact the East Paul police immediately at pot growers busted Winnipeg vice cops continued to rack up More hydroponic drug busts this raiding three More operations this in the last six police have shut Down 61 hydroponic operations and seized marijuana Worth the drugs seized Are valued at about three times what was collected in All of in the three unrelated raids police searched Homes on Pinquet Hen Derson Highway and Luxton while the first two cases were part of drug invest the Luxton Avenue seizure came after the occupant on the Home called police to report that his television and Var had been when offi cers arrived to take a they discovered 59 marijuana plants Worth nearly in the mans a 47yearold a 43year old Man and a 30yearold woman were All arrested and face drug related Grain eases hunger Canadia grown wheat is help ing to feed hungry families in North this the Canadian food grains Bank reported it has sent tonnes of valued at to the country to assist in ongoing Aid the Grain was donated by Farmers in the three Prairie provinces and it will feed about a Mil lion people for 18 the mennonite Central which provided funds to help with the Grain announced this week it is committing another to assist with yet another shipment to North major flooding in 1995 and As Well As the collapse of the country has led to a famine in which some fam Ilies Are receiving Only a handful of Rice they Are attempting to supple ment those rations by growing crops in every available estimates indicate the rate of malnutrition among North Kore an children has jumped to per cent from 16 per cent a year Mcc is accepting contributions for the Relief cheques can be made out to Mcc North Korea hunger fund and sent to macs office at 134 Plaza r3t traffic officer Hurt a Winnipeg police officer is nursing a separated shoulder and broken Bones after falling from his motorcycle while in Pursuit of a the 37yearold whose name was not lost control of his Bike at around 8 wednesday on Roblin Boulevard near Wexford Street after the throttle said acting duty Dennis the officer lost control of the mounted the Boule Vard and was thrown off the he was chasing a car occupied by passengers who were not wearing ;